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ImperiumBut from you, Catulus, and from all of you, I want nothing, and if all you wish to do is insult me, I bid you a good evening.Á€« He spun around and began walking toward the door, with me in tow, and I guess that must have felt to him like the longest walk he ever took, because we had almost reached the shadowy antechamber-and with it, surely, the black void of political oblivion-when a voice (it was that of Lucullus himself) shouted out, Á€œRead it back!Á€« Cicero halted, and we both turned around. Á€œRead it back,Á€« repeated Lucullus. Á€œWhat Catulus said just now.Á€« Cicero nodded at me, and I fumbled for my notebook. Á€œÁ€˜If what I have read here is true,Á€™Á€« I began, reciting in that flat, strange way of stenography being read back, Á€œÁ€˜the state is threatened with civil war as a result of a criminal conspiracy if what I have read is false it is the wickedest forgery in our history for my own part I do not believe it is true because I do not believe such a record could have been produced by a living hand-Á€™Á€« Á€œHe could have memorized that,Á€« objected Catulus ...» |
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